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"Pilot Grove is an unincorporated community in northern Lee County, Iowa, United States. It lies along local roads northwest of the city of Fort Madison, the county seat of Lee County.Rand McNally. The Road Atlas '08. Chicago: Rand McNally, 2008, p. 39. Its elevation is 643 feet (196 m). Although Pilot Grove is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 52648,Zip Code Lookup which opened on . There has not always been a Pilot Grove post office since that date: it was discontinued on , and when it was reestablished on , it was under the name of Overton. The name was not restored to Pilot Grove until . Pilot Grove was laid out in 1858. Pilot Grove is part of the Fort Madison-Keokuk, IA-MO Micropolitan Statistical Area. References Category:Unincorporated communities in Lee County, Iowa Category:Unincorporated communities in Iowa Category:Fort Madison–Keokuk, IA- IL-MO Micropolitan Statistical Area "
"Wever is an unincorporated community in northeastern Lee County, in the southeastern corner of Iowa, United States. Geography Wever lies along U.S. Route 61, approximately eight miles northeast of the city of Fort Madison, one of two county seats in Lee County. It is just South of the Iowa Army Ammunition Plant and the Skunk River, which empties further east into the Mississippi River. .Rand McNally. The Road Atlas '08. Chicago: Rand McNally, 2008, p. 39. Its elevation is 561 feet (171 m). History Wever was a station on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. Although Wever is unincorporated, it has a post office, which opened on . This post office has a complicated name history: it opened as 'Sand Ridge', changed to 'Green Bay' on , to 'Jollyville' on , and finally to Wever on . Its ZIP code is 52658,Zip Code Lookup Wever was built around a station of the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad within Green Bay Township, and superseded the nearby town of Jollyville. It had 300 inhabitants when mentioned in the 1879 History of Lee County and was enjoying "good trade" because of the surrounding very fertile country. The community has been part of the Micropolitan Statistical Area. 21st century In 2012, plans were announced to build a $1.4 billion fertilizer plant in Wever. The plant will use natural gas and is built by Orascom. Groundbreaking occurred in November 2012. The WSJ wrote that US economic rebound and cheap energy from the shale-oil boom was luring investment from companies such as Egypt's Orascom. References Category:Unincorporated communities in Lee County, Iowa Category:Unincorporated communities in Iowa Category:Fort Madison–Keokuk, IA- IL-MO Micropolitan Statistical Area "
"A potrero is a long mesa that at one end slopes upward to higher terrain. This landform commonly occurs on the flanks of a mountain, as part of a dissected plateau. A loan word from the Spanish language, potrero is in current use in the southwestern United States, where it is sometimes translated as "tongue of land" and "enclosed piece of pasture land".John Peabody Harrington (1916) The Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians, pages 29–618 in Twenty-ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1907–1908, Government Printing Office, Washington. Page 259. In the Spanish language, however, the "tongue of land" sense is archaic. Also archaic is the related sense of potrero referring to someone who wrangles young horses (potros in Spanish) kept as breeding stock (not saddle or pack stock). In Spanish, the usual sense of potrero now refers to any land (such as a ranch, open range, or community pasture) where such horses are kept. Notable examples of potreros include some of the many mesas of the Pajarito Plateau near Santa Fe, New Mexico (United States). Historically, these potreros were used as winter pasture for livestock (horses, sheep, and cattle) that were driven to and from lush summer pastures in the high grass valleys (valles) of the Valles Caldera. Today, these potreros are used in this manner by a large herd of elk. These potreros are natural enclosures, with only one principal exit: the narrow connection to higher land. In Spain a potrero is common land in poor condition. References Category:Mesas Category:Tables (landform) . Category:Erosion landforms Category:Spanish words and phrases "